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What taxes do you support? (Courtesy of the Jamesian Republic)

Land/Property Tax
23
15%
Sales Tax
18
12%
Income Tax
16
10%
No Taxes at All!
8
5%
Tax Transparency (Choose where tax money goes)
17
11%
Reverse Tax (Government Pays You!)
13
8%
Business Tax
23
15%
Flat Tax
7
5%
Progressive Tax
24
16%
Other (Comment Below)
5
3%
 
Total votes : 154

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Meadowfields
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Meadowfields » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:57 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Hot Take: Alabama should have nukes.

Hot take: You should stop focusing on Alabama and try at least something for all of the US instead
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The Jamesian Republic
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby The Jamesian Republic » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:57 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Front Range wrote:NSG is like a high school debate team but 4chan

NSG is like a high school debate team but it then descends into madness, brain-cancer, dark-magic fuckery, and ultra-flaming to the point that someone says "go fucking kill yourself".


I know right?

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The Front Range
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Compulsory Consumerist State

Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:58 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:NSG is like a high school debate team but it then descends into madness, brain-cancer, dark-magic fuckery, and ultra-flaming to the point that someone says "go fucking kill yourself".

NSG is actually the most sane social media website.

You know that’s a lie
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Khurkhogur
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Psychotic Dictatorship

Postby Khurkhogur » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:58 pm

Hot take: posting about who should get nukes or what should get nuked is such an edgy, tired-out format that it's looped back around to being not edgy and is just stone-cold
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The Front Range
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Compulsory Consumerist State

Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:59 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Front Range wrote:NSG is like a high school debate team but 4chan

NSG is like a high school debate team but it then descends into madness, brain-cancer, dark-magic fuckery, and ultra-flaming to the point that someone says "go fucking kill yourself".

Isn’t that basically /pol/?
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Meadowfields
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Meadowfields » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:59 pm

The Front Range wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:NSG is like a high school debate team but it then descends into madness, brain-cancer, dark-magic fuckery, and ultra-flaming to the point that someone says "go fucking kill yourself".

Isn’t that basically /pol/?

/pol/ but less misogynistic
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Port Caverton
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Postby Port Caverton » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:59 pm

The Front Range wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:NSG is actually the most sane social media website.

You know that’s a lie

Which social media website is more sane then? Like at least here it's calm.

Elsewhere you get "kys" over a small disagreement along with a doxing
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The Jamesian Republic
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby The Jamesian Republic » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:00 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:Hot Take: Alabama should have nukes.

Hot take: You should stop focusing on Alabama and try at least something for all of the US instead


Okay hmm…

Hot Take: If The United States wishes to be rid of debt and the deficit it should declare that The United States doesn’t exist.
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Khurkhogur
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Psychotic Dictatorship

Postby Khurkhogur » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:01 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:Hot take: You should stop focusing on Alabama and try at least something for all of the US instead

Okay hmm…
Hot Take: If The United States wishes to be rid of debt and the deficit it should declare that The United States doesn’t exist.

To paraphrase Stalin "if there is country there is problem..."
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Meadowfields
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Meadowfields » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:01 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:Hot take: You should stop focusing on Alabama and try at least something for all of the US instead


Okay hmm…

Hot Take: If The United States wishes to be rid of debt and the deficit it should declare that The United States doesn’t exist.

err...that's a weird solution
Khurkhogur wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:Okay hmm…
Hot Take: If The United States wishes to be rid of debt and the deficit it should declare that The United States doesn’t exist.

To paraphrase Stalin "if there is country there is problem..."

Stalin supporting anarchism?
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The Front Range
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Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:02 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Front Range wrote:Isn’t that basically /pol/?

/pol/ but less misogynistic

Time to game end myself on the feminism thread
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The Jamesian Republic
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:02 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Okay hmm…

Hot Take: If The United States wishes to be rid of debt and the deficit it should declare that The United States doesn’t exist.

err...that's a weird solution
Khurkhogur wrote:To paraphrase Stalin "if there is country there is problem..."

Stalin supporting anarchism?


It’s probably the easiest. You can’t have a debt or deficit if the country that had it doesn’t exist.

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Khurkhogur
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Psychotic Dictatorship

Postby Khurkhogur » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:03 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
Khurkhogur wrote:To paraphrase Stalin "if there is country there is problem..."

Stalin supporting anarchism?

Stalin supporting self-defeating solutions
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Meadowfields
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Meadowfields » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:03 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:err...that's a weird solution

Stalin supporting anarchism?


It’s probably the easiest. You can’t have a debt or deficit if the country that had it doesn’t exist.

And that, kids, is why we should support anarchism.
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Port Caverton
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Port Caverton » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:04 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
It’s probably the easiest. You can’t have a debt or deficit if the country that had it doesn’t exist.

And that, kids, is why we should support anarchism.

How do you make sure that people don't reinstate the, well, state
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Mets Hayk
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Corporate Police State

Postby Mets Hayk » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:05 pm

Here's something to piss off a few folks: the Whites should've won the Russian Civil War.
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The Jamesian Republic
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:05 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
It’s probably the easiest. You can’t have a debt or deficit if the country that had it doesn’t exist.

And that, kids, is why we should support anarchism.


Well we should declare a new country this time with no debt or deficit.

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The Jamesian Republic
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:05 pm

Mets Hayk wrote:Here's something to piss off a few folks: the Whites should've won the Russian Civil War.


Yes.

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The Front Range
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Founded: May 13, 2022
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Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:06 pm

Mets Hayk wrote:Here's something to piss off a few folks: the Whites should've won the Russian Civil War.

Agreed honestly
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The United Penguin Commonwealth
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Postby The United Penguin Commonwealth » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:06 pm

Luminesa wrote:Hot takes!

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Pierogis are sandwiches.


pasta != bread

Tacos are sandwiches.


They're wrapped completely by the tortilla, so they aren't sandwiches.

Sushi is a sandwich!


rice != bread

also see the above response.

also the rice isn't one thing, it's a lump of rice molded into a ring.

also sushi isn't always round; sushi literally means "vinegar rice" (su+shi). sushi is pretty much just sushi rice (aka vinegar rice rice) and a topping.

Burritos are sandwiches.


see tacos

Pizza is an open-faced sandwich.


only if open-faced sanwhiches count as sandwhiches.

Cheesecake is a sweet sandwich!


they barely qualify as open-faced sandwhiches, let alone sandwhiches.

Eclaires are cream sandwiches.


they aren't even made in a sandwich-esque fashion. they're filled pastries.

Empanadas are sandwiches!


both the sections on tacos and éclaires apply.

Pies are sandwiches.


they're tarts. they don't qualify as open-faced sandwiches because the crust is bowl-shaped and the filling is contained within, whereas an open-faced sandwhich has a flat "crust" and the "filling" is piled on top. they are not sandwiches because they usually lack a top crust (and if they have a top crust, they have side crusts, invoking the same objection as in the taco section). also, the crust is not bread, it is pastry.

(And empanadas are just mini-pies, therefore it is a biconditional.)


uh

I only agree with this post if we are limiting our categories to sandwiches and salads.
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The Front Range
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Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:07 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:And that, kids, is why we should support anarchism.

How do you make sure that people don't reinstate the, well, state

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The United Penguin Commonwealth
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Postby The United Penguin Commonwealth » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:08 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:And that, kids, is why we should support anarchism.

How do you make sure that people don't reinstate the, well, state


that's easy. you just elect a leader and give them a militia to shut down attempts to form a government.
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The House of Hamid
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Ex-Nation

Postby The House of Hamid » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:08 pm



All posturing aside: siding with the soviets was a dick move.

Ok, I'ma be for real for a tick here.

I don't simp Enver, his tactics were shite. Really, winter offensive with summer equipment? He was influenced by Wilhem II. and his nonsense. As far as your usual goes: the english blockade killed over 2 million germans and austrians, civillians starved to death by the ingiliz. Was that Genocide too? They killed tens of thousands of brave soldiers in their landings at Cannakale... I'm no damn erdoganite ottoman-simp. Enver was a butcher and his pan-turan ideas were bullshit. The armenians tried for independence, first with terrorism and in WW1 with russian support, against a state that considered sending the cavalry as the usual response to disobedient populations. Ethnic clensing and forced deportations were kind off re rigeur at that time all over the world, just ask the british what they did in Bengal at that time. Your people sided with anyone that would help them with their quest for independence, first Imperial Russia (idiotic idea that, just ask Finnland) and then the bloody Bolsheviks. And a lovely mess that turned out to be for them. Where we got Atatürks reforms, you got Stalins purges - I hope it was worth the effort.

That said: what the neighbors of turkey tried to do in and after 1918 was bound to fail, one cannot hope to simply marginalize a people. The greeks got kicked into the sea and your oh-so-honorable ancestors back to their lair. Today - Azerbaycan has as much a right to statehood as you do or as Turkey does. Erdogans Propagands-BS surrounding Enver, Nuri and their Army of Islam is pure bullshit, just like his other TV-shite, Payitaht Abdülhamid comes to mind there. Envers strategic leadership as statesman and Müşir was a desaster and effectively ended the Ottoman Empire, no amount of simping will change that. And good riddance, the end of WW1 and the War of Independence paved the way to modern democratic Turkey. And now they're fucking it up, it makes me wanna vomit.
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Postby Meadowfields » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:10 pm

The United Penguin Commonwealth wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:How do you make sure that people don't reinstate the, well, state


that's easy. you just elect a leader and give them a militia to shut down attempts to form a government.

did you know that's actually the logic of unironic believers of anarcho-monarchism (see: lys noir in france)
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Postby The Front Range » Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:11 pm

The United Penguin Commonwealth wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:How do you make sure that people don't reinstate the, well, state


that's easy. you just elect a leader and give them a militia to shut down attempts to form a government.

Elect a leader to keep anarchy

Election… Anarchy

What? I’m probably just an idiot
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